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Subject: 1911 History - John TURNER
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:12:33 EST

Chapter 4 Memoirs of Wayne County , Indiana page 36

By the same act of the Terriotrial legislature forming the County of Wayne ,
in 1810 , John COX , John ADDINGTON , & George HOLMAN , were commissioned to
locate a County seat , on or before the first Monday in May 1811. Meanwhile ,
however , court was held at the rude residence of Richard RUE , as indeed it
was susequent to locating the County seat , pending the building of a log
court house. The first court was held 2-25-1811 but it was not a judicial
session , the purpose being to divide the county into two districts or townships and
appoint such officers as overseers of the poor & fence viewers , the county
buisness being done by judges - Peter FLEMING , Aaron MARTIN , Jeremiah MEEK ;
the clerk was George HUNT , the sherrif was JOHN TURNER & the prosecutor was
James NOBLE .

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